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The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
I'm working on a new book
Sep 23, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Why I write the Common Reader
"A man who has climbed the Matterhorn may prefer Derbyshire to Switzerland, but he won't think the Peak is the highest mountain in Europe."
Jun 9, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Pride and Poverty? Lizzy Bennet's financial prospects.
No, she does not face destitution.
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Henry Oliver
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No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley
Jul 23, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Is Mary Oliver a good poet?
Apr 9, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Writing advice is a lie.
Oct 7, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Writing advice is a lie.
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Here's a simple solution to the pessimism culture. Read a book.
Aug 1, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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How I learned to love literary criticism.
Dec 12, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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The modern discourse novel
Jul 2, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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The modern discourse novel
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Founders over fifty.
Experience makes the best entrepreneurs.
Feb 8
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Henry Oliver
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Shakespeare the economist.
Beneath the poetry lurks a mind uncannily alert to the costs and benefits of every human transaction.
Feb 6
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Henry Oliver
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Rohit Krishnan
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Shakespeare the economist.
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Does Jane Austen hate you?
Sometimes, but she's smarter than that.
Feb 4
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Henry Oliver
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Natasha Joukovsky: literature, capitalism, and Jane Austen.
Jane Austen, management consulting, Rene Girard.
Feb 2
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Henry Oliver
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a. natasha joukovsky
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Does the flame of genius burn past 30?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Jan 31
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Henry Oliver
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Does the flame of genius burn past 30?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Jan 31
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Henry Oliver
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Launch day for Second Act!
What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.
May 9, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Fifty late bloomers
It's launch week for Second Act!
May 5, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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How to be a late bloomer in 2024
What did you do today to make that tomorrow possible?
Jan 22, 2024
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Henry Oliver
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Why I am writing about late bloomers
Parties, catsup, and Michelangelo
Aug 7, 2023
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Henry Oliver
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I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers
Not before time...
Apr 11, 2022
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Henry Oliver
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The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late
Late bloomers and lifelong learners
Feb 16, 2021
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Henry Oliver
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Richard III: a close reading
And an introductory mini-podcast
Jan 31
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Henry Oliver
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Literary culture can't just dismiss AI.
The Metropolitan Review and the new sensibility
Jan 29
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Henry Oliver
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Why is Harry Potter quite so influential?
The right sort of snobbery.
Jan 27
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Henry Oliver
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Richard III Book Club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time
Jan 26
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Henry Oliver
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A place where knowledge is ours for the taking.
Open Socrates by Agnes Callard
Jan 24
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Henry Oliver
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Twenty-nine facts about Richard III
"we all demand reparation for early wounds to our narcissism"
Jan 23
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Henry Oliver
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Shakespeare's stirring world.
The boredoms and the inventions of Henry VI
Jan 20
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Henry Oliver
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Shakespeare's stirring world.
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Is Atlas Shrugged the new vibe?
It's time to take Ayn Rand seriously.
Jan 18
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Henry Oliver
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Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal)
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